Colin Richardson
Principal Engineer at UK Home Office
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Richardson is a Principal Engineer based in Sheffield with a long career of hands‑on software development that spans over three decades of coding and eight years of focused professional experience in senior and leadership roles. He currently architects and delivers services for the UK Home Office while also running a successful side business converting and scripting RPG content for Fantasy Grounds—an unusual blend of government-scale engineering and niche product entrepreneurship. His technical toolkit centers on Node.js, Docker, MongoDB/Postgres, ForgeRock and ELK stacks, with extensive experience shipping service layers and identity solutions. Colin has led teams and businesses from EPOS systems to bespoke enterprise services, and he’s comfortable moving between legacy desktop codebases and modern web/mobile architectures. He pairs practical delivery skills—bug fixes, documentation, and handovers—with design responsibilities and a steady drive to automate and package systems for handoff. Outside of day jobs, his GitHub acts as a personal brain dump of useful apps and scripts he relies on, reflecting pragmatic, self-directed engineering.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computing, BSc (Hons), Computing at The Open University
Github Skills (27)
azerothcore10
csharp10
vtt10
react-bootstrap9
witcher9
character-sheet9
react-router8
docker8
deploying8
aws7
sst7
serverless6
tabletop6
react6
aws-lambda6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
madbeardman/fgmgt2travellerworldsdata
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
App used to pull the data from TravellerMap.com into Fantasy Grounds formats
Contributions:1 review, 32 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 3 months
fantasyformatsfantasy-grounds
madbeardman/rpgcons
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:23 PRs, 27 pushes, 24 branches in 28 days
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